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B&G REPORT.
The B&G Report features newsy items relating to a wide variety of state and local government management topics, including state and local performance audit, state and local performance management, government budgeting, state and local human resource issues, and a variety of other public sector issues.
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Preparing for Risk: GASB-Style
In a day when one of the only sure things about the future of state and local finances is that they are unpredictable, a proposal issued...
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Measuring Principals (not Principles)
Over the years in which we’ve been covering the evolution of performance management, it’s always been abundantly clear to us that great...
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Five Key Benefits of Enterprise Risk Management for Government
by Marty Benison, Industry Executive Director for State and Local Government, Oracle While the move to “Software as a Service” (SaaS)...
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Praise in a Remote World
We’ve repeatedly heard the phrase: “People don’t leave bad jobs, they leave bad bosses.” This comment has been supported by loads of...
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Climate Action: Backed by Budget
by Chris Fabian, CEO, ResourceX To prevent a “climate catastrophe,” the focus of local, regional, national, and international...
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Understanding Fiscal Scandals and Their Impact on Localities
There’s no shortage of news reports about fiscal scandals, and while we doubt the number of convicted politicians and employees has...
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The Tower of State and Local Babel
Some years ago, when the phrase “big data,” was first gaining currency, we decided that before we embarked on any projects related to...
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Disaggregating is King
Our friend and colleague Harry Hatry has long insisted that data is far more valuable when it’s disaggregated. In a January 2022 paper...
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Why States Need Stronger Statutes about Animal Cruelty
by Diana Urban, former Chair of the Connecticut General Assembly Committee on Children, presently founder and president of Protecting...
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A Law Ignored “To a Startling Degree”
While pensions and retiree health liabilities garner lots of headlines as dramatic fiscal threats, a less-publicized, but still critical...
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Lessons Learned from TANF Clients
In researching the 26-year-old Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program recently, we had the chance to talk with Mary Beth...
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Procurement Offices and the Environment
It would be a wonderful thing, we think, if the federal government could move forward on environmental issues. But as recently as a few...
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Crowdfunding to Help Pay for Infrastructure
by John R. Bartle, University of Nebraska at Omaha and Can Chen, Georgia State University John Bartle ...
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How Staffing Shortages May Be Affecting Illinois Children
Over the last months, we've written a series of columns for Route Fifty and elsewhere about the difficulties states and localities are...
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Keeping the Budget Boring
by Neil Bergsman, Senior Policy Analyst at Maryland Nonprofits with a 35-year background in Maryland government finance, both executive...
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Engaging the Community to Serve the Community: The Providence Rescue Plan
By Joshua Avila, MPA, Deputy Chief Operating Officer, City of Providence, Office of Mayor Jorge O. Elorza I joined the City of...
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Using Data to Build Trust in Government
By Doug Criscitello, Managing Director, Grant Thornton Public Sector Trust, perhaps the most important ingredient to a well-functioning...
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City Parks Tackling Climate Change
Typically, when people think about efforts to help deal with the byproducts of global warming, they focus on the power of federal...
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How Can Auditors Work Well With Agencies and the Other Way Around
We’ve been spending our day watching the Association of Local Government Auditors Annual Conference online. We wish we could be there in...
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Does Measurement Get Things Done? Really?
Two of the most-repeated aphorisms pertaining to performance management have long been “What Gets Measured Gets Managed,” or, optionally,...
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